The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Movit Road, a famous polar mountain city, is located in the big valley at the end of Blade's Edge Canyon. It is not correct to say that it is a valley. This place is actually a huge crater. If you want to get in and out of here, you can only climb over the mountains. There are two mountain corridors, Blade Canyon and Long Snake Canyon.

The statues of the city builders Beto and Hierrod stand at the entrances and exits of the two canyon corridors, and the two huge statues, more than 30 feet high, are carved out of the mountain. People here can see these two statues when they look up from any place.

I don’t know whether the builders of the city, Beto and Hierrod, are too good, or the successors of Movit Road City are too incompetent. In short, after the construction of Movit Road City, we know that today, from the city layout to the division of streets, and then Nothing has changed until the block buildings and so on. What the city was like when it was built is still what it is now. The only change is that the people living in these buildings have changed one after another.

The overall structure of Movit Road City is composed of 33 concentric circle blocks. Each circle of houses represents a block. The closer to the center of the city, the smaller the block. The layout and style of the city.

Unlike other cities in the polar mountains, the city of Movit Road has no walls, because the original city builders Beto and Hierrod believed that if the enemy could climb over the mountains and lead an army out of the city, it would represent Movit Road has completely lost its ability to resist. It doesn't matter whether the city wall is built or not. It is better to make it easier for attackers to occupy the city and reduce casualties.

Regardless of what the two city builders thought at the time, their decision not to build the city wall later brought Movit Road a very different status.

Just like the rest of the continent, the cities in the polar mountains were constantly fighting, and various battles emerged endlessly without stopping.

Since there is a fight, there will naturally be negotiations to quell the fight. In previous negotiations of this kind, both sides would choose a deserted hill, and each lead a different number of subordinates, fully showing their distrust of each other.

However, the appearance of Movit Road made the city owners and leaders of the various cities in the polar mountains feel that this city without walls is a suitable neutral zone. It's also very nice here.

At that time, the lord of Movitt Road noticed the opportunity here, so he publicly stated that Movitt Road is the permanent neutral zone of the Polar Mountains. He guaranteed the safety of any negotiators here, and personally visited all the Polar Mountains. The city and the tribe signed relevant neutrality agreements with them, which made Movit Road a negotiating city in the polar mountains. Almost all battle negotiations, business negotiations, etc. in the mountains were carried out on Movit Road .

Also because of this special environment, a very special profession was born in the city of Movit Road, that is, the drafter of the negotiation agreement.

As the name suggests, this profession is specially designed to draft agreements for several parties involved in the negotiation. It prevents the parties from getting too excited during the negotiation and completely forgets the direction and content of the negotiation. disputes.

In the beginning, they only drafted the negotiation agreement, and later they even took charge of some commercial agreements. Moreover, this profession was chaotic and disorderly from the beginning, and gradually, under the intervention of the city government of Movit Road, it gradually Standardized.

In order to become a negotiation agreement drafter, in addition to studying at the Movit Road City College for four years, you must also pass three professional assessments. Now there are less than 30 official negotiation agreement drafters in the entire Movit Road City. Only one, and at most there were only fifty or so.

There are so few negotiation agreement drafters who need to be responsible for the negotiation agreements brought about by the various disputes between so many cities and tribes in the polar mountains. They must be too busy, so some illegal negotiation agreement drafters joined in , pick up those jobs that the official drafters don't want to do.

Although it is said to be illegal, it does not mean that the ability of the drafters of these negotiation agreements is really much worse than that of the official drafters. In fact, all the illegal drafters have completed four years of college studies, but their luck is very bad. Well, they failed to pass the three career assessments, but even so, the various agreements they drafted can still play a role in various negotiations.

Lagrom is such a drafter of illegal negotiation agreements. He is not a native of Movit Road. He comes from a small tribe in the ice cap area in the northern part of the polar mountains. His tribe was defeated by another big tribe. All of them became slaves, and he was bought by a caravan and taken to the Mowett Road.

His master is a good man. Not only did he not abuse him, he also taught him all kinds of knowledge, and let him take a position in the chamber of commerce. Before his death, because he was worried about his identity, he returned the prostitution contract to him. And the entrusted relationship gave him an official freeman status.

Afterwards, the successor of the chamber of commerce did not treat him as well as his master did, and made things difficult for him, eventually driving him away from the chamber of commerce. After leaving the chamber of commerce, he used his savings to enter a specialist school for negotiating agreement drafters.

He is not really interested in the profession of draftsman, it is entirely because of his slave background, even if he has obtained the status of a freeman, other schools in the city of Movit Road will not be willing to accept him, only the professional draftsman The school will let anyone read it.

Or maybe it was because he was not interested in drafters himself, so he barely finished the four years of study, and he failed to pass one of the three subsequent assessments, and eventually he became a drafter of illegal negotiation agreements.

Because his own draftsman's professional ability is too poor, it is difficult for him to grab valuable work from a large number of peers. At most, he can only get some black jobs that are extremely profitable, dangerous, and require additional work. He can barely make ends meet, but It is precisely because he has received a lot of black goods and can complete them perfectly every time, so he has gained some reputation among his peers.

Today, he specially came to the Swenke area at the outermost edge of Movit Road. They are all stables.

The reason for this is entirely because those caravans who come to Movit Road will unload their goods here, and then send all kinds of pack animals to the care of familiar animal stable owners. Even in the coldest time in the urban area, you can smell the stuffy smell of pack animals and the feces of various pack animals.

Ragrom rarely came to the animal pen area, because the smell of the animal pen area always reminded him of his life experience when he was a child and was locked up with pack animals like a beast. He has a psychological shadow, and he will instinctively refuse all kinds of work related to the animal pen.

However, the situation was different this time. He accepted the job that he had to go to the animal pen himself, because the person who gave him the live was a big shot whom he could never offend, and the reward offered by this big shot was too tempting , let him forget all the psychological problems for a while, accept this commission in person, and also decided to go to the field to complete this task in person.

The task this time is very simple. It is to receive a batch of goods, pay a final payment, and then deliver the received goods to the designated place and hand them over to the designated person.

Although the task seems simple, it is actually very dangerous, because he can be sure that the goods are contraband almost without thinking. Thinking of the people that the big man made friends with every day, he can even guess that the goods should be Some missionary books of the Church of True God.

For a long time, the missionaries of the Church of the True God have been rejected by the cities in the polar mountains. On the surface, the rulers of the cities in the polar mountains may not attack the missionaries of the Church of the True God, but they can create all kinds of things for those missionaries. This kind of trouble, such as preventing the shops in the city from selling any food and daily necessities to those missionaries, etc., and even directly attacking those who are in contact with the church when necessary, or installing crimes on these people, and sending them to the church. Putting him in a prison cell, or directly sending someone to assassinate him, in a word, is to erase all signs that may allow the Church of True God to gain a foothold.

Even if the Church of the True God is attacking like this, the Church of the Evil God will not mention it. Once there is relevant news, they will directly send people to hunt and kill them without giving the slightest chance to negotiate.

It is precisely because of this decisive approach that the polar mountains can be said to be restricted by the church until now, and no church has been able to gain a foothold here.

It would not be a particularly serious crime to transport contraband such as missionary books of the church at other times, but recently, everything related to the church has become a taboo in Movit Road City, so this time Lagrom also Feeling a little tricky.

The reason why Mowet Road was suddenly so harsh on the people of the church was entirely because of the assassination of the city lord of Mowet Road that happened not long ago, and the missionaries of the Church of the True God were said to have participated in it, and all of them were arrested.

Although most of the city lords in the polar mountains have lost most of their power, and only their status has been retained, they still have a lot of influence and are deeply loved by the common people in the city. Now the city lord has been assassinated. Naturally, they were also outraged, and the censorship of the church did not go against them.

In the current situation where the whole people are hostile to the church, if he accidentally exposes these contraband, he, a non-native, will definitely be punished severely, and even losing his head is not a problem.

It is also because of this seriousness that he personally took part in this job from the very beginning, because he didn't know when the smuggled goods would arrive, so he rented a room in the animal pen and waited here so that he could wait for the first time the goods arrived. Time to take the goods away.

It's just that what Lagrom didn't expect was that during the few days he stayed here, although he didn't get the batch of contraband, he unexpectedly took several orders and helped several temporarily formed caravans and local The chamber of commerce signed several agreements for the purchase and sale of goods. Although the commission for each order was not very large, it added up to a considerable amount, which was equivalent to one-third of the commission for receiving the goods this time. This made him start to consider whether he should Business shifted to the stables.

Today, as usual, he began to inquire at various reception points in the animal pen whether the team from the Ice Bear Chamber of Commerce had come. After getting all negative answers, he turned and went back to his room, and continued to complete the transaction agreement that had not been completed yesterday. It's done, this job was accepted three days ago, because both parties said that there was no need to hurry, so he put this job to the end.

Just when Lagrom finished writing the last agreement and started to do the overall inspection, a staff member from the reception desk of the beast pen hurriedly came to his temporary residence and told him that people from the Ice Bear Chamber of Commerce had arrived. He just added with some doubts, "However, there are only two people and a pack animal. It looks like a lone merchant, not someone from the Ice Bear Chamber of Commerce."

"Didn't your heads check their identity certificates?" Lagrome immediately folded the drafted agreement in his hand and included it in the extension, and then asked.

"I checked, and there is no problem," the staff immediately replied, and then said: "However, I am worried that I made a mistake. Even after checking the identity, I still sent someone to find a few old people who are familiar with the Ice Bear Chamber of Commerce. identify them."

Hearing what the staff said, Lagrom didn't ask any more questions, and quickly walked out of the room, then trotted through the thick snow, and rushed towards the animal pen that the staff told him, he had to The goods should be taken away before the arrival of the few old people who are familiar with the Ice Bear Chamber of Commerce, so as to avoid complications.

Soon Ragrom came to the gate of the animal pen, identified himself to the guard at the gate, and walked in. At this time, he happened to see the pack animal standing in the middle of the animal pen, and even more The correct one is a piece of cloth with a special symbol on the baskets on both sides of the pack animal. This symbol is an identity symbol, which means that the contents of these two baskets are the goods he wants to take away.

Seeing this situation, he directly stepped forward and said to a middle-aged man who was sitting on a chair next to the pack beast, whose appearance and temperament were completely different from those of the northern polar people, "I am the recipient of these goods, this is my proof, let's complete the delivery of the goods quickly!"

As he spoke, he saw him take out a short agreement document and hand it over to the man.

The man looked up at him, and instead of accepting the agreement, he pointed to another Northlander with distinctive features not far away, indicating that the person he was going to hand over was over there.

Seeing that he had made a mistake, Lagrom didn't feel embarrassed. He immediately walked up to the Northlander who might be a member of the Ice Bear Chamber of Commerce, and said the handover words again.

The Northlander took over the agreement, and then took out another copy himself, compared it with this agreement, and after confirming that it was correct, he signaled to Ragrom that he could move the things away. As for the man in charge of the animal pen Before the supervisor could speak, he was blocked by the money Lagrome brought out.

Everything seemed to be going smoothly, and when Lagrom asked people to start taking out the contents of the cargo basket, some people blocked the door of the animal pen and proposed to inspect the cargo.